Tired of all this pumpkin and plastic skeleton crap everywhere. Thanks, marketing ghouls
What, are we going to start celebrating the 4th of July next? Might as well with the NATO membership I guess
Nah legit the one part of anglo/American culture I will defend with my whole chest this shit is dope and the more of it that exists the better
I’m not sure how to break this to you, but Halloween is European. Halloween was invented in Ireland, from the pagan celebration of Samhain. Even the practice of dressing up in costume and going from door to door asking for food is recorded as of the 16th century at the latest. Pranks, as well as “Mischief Night,” also dates from the 18th century at the latest. This is all pre-Americanisation. It’s not a continental European tradition but it’s certainly European, not American.
Sure, but this shit started not really being a thing in non-anglo European countries sometime in the 90s
And now its back, like many religious and non religious celebratory traditions before it.
I file Halloween with Valentine’s Day under “Fake American holidays imported to sell tacky plastic crap”
Apart from the plastic shit everywhere I think I can get behind some spooky fun. It’s so tiring stuffing all these apples with razor blades and heroin though.
and the expense alone. Fentanyl has really done wonders for the affordability
I’ve always thought Halloween was a cool holiday but it’s a completely hollow marketing exercise here, no actual tradition behind it all.
Might as well pretend it’s the Day of the Dead or Obon
I just remember being a kid and my parents being baffled and borderline offended when I told them my school was holding a Halloween party
Halloween is one of the few things America appropriated and made cooler. No disrespect to the Irish OG’s that made it, mind you.
